Track Of The Day: MPEG - Bite The Bullet (Threads)

 

One of those tracks that’s currently blending a groove with trance. The overtones are obvious, but that doesn’t detract from this tune’s richness. Definitely one to elevate the mix to unscaled height. The only downside is that it’s not available as a digital file. Of course it’s the choice of the label to remain vinyl only, but all that does is limit the horizons of the music. Only a few people can own it and Discogs sharks eventually profit from it. I mean I love vinyl, but I’ve never known a scene to innovate whilst being wilfully stuck in the past.

Track Of The Day: Brooks Mosher - Entrenched (Dolly)

 

Nice track from Brooks Mosher from Dolly’s relatively early days. I used to buy all of the releases, but now I’m satisfied with the digital files, in much the same way as I am to buy 95% of my stuff that way. This track has a nice dissonant energy, underpinned by a propellant beat. E erything is going off in all directions. It’s ace, but really needs to be cranked up.

XDB ‪@TheLotRadio‬ 04-18-2026

 

Track Of The Day: Crackazat - Shine (Club Mix) (Freerange Records)

This track opens Colin Dale’s most recent Abstract Dance show, which I posted two days ago. And it grabbed me right away. Great jazzy feel, vocals work well and wonderful summer energy. I’m all for escapism these days. Living in the present is it. And although there are certain elements of this track which I could possibly do without, they coalesce brilliantly. Dropped at the right time this will slay the floor.

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Trommel.243 - Paula Tape

 

trommel · Trommel.243 - Paula Tape

Track Of The Day: The Desperate Bicycles - Skill (Refill Records)

 

Throughout their short existence, The Desperate Bicycles were perennial John Peel favourites and this track, ‘Skill’, which had equal billing with ‘Occupied Territory’ on their penultimate release, featured in a session that they did for his show in the summer of 1978. In spite of not owning the record, this is the track by them that I remember the most, mainly because of the slightly dissonant guitar riff that runs through it. I had the’New Cross, New Cross’ release, which is currently going for an exorbitant amount on Discogs. Hearing this track, however, instantly takes me back to listening to my radio between 10-12 on a weekday night, (not Friday when the ‘Rock Show’ was on), it balancing next to my ear, often in total darkness.

Track Of The Day: Ian O'Brien - Dayride (Ferox)

 

Superior jazz-inflected techno from Ian O’Brien, on Ferox. One of the best labels for as long as it lasted. You can feel the roots of the genre in this one. It’s an undulating flying carpet of machine funk. Machine funk that also crosses over into jazz and house. There’s a real Brazilian feel to the percussion and a great attention to modulated detail. The dynamics are amazing and the sense of eternity implicit. Wondrous stuff.

Colin Dale - Abstrakt Dance Show 16.04.2026

 

Track List. Crackazat – Shine Louie Vega Presents Funki Cadets Featuring Willy Soul - Feelin' Good Tonight (Shapes Mix) Harry Dennis - Counting Clouds (Rob Redford & Damian Charles Jungle Sounds Mix) Black Jazz Consortium - A Century Of Love Piers Kirwan ft Dalena - Kingdom (Sean McCabe Cosmos Dub) Tevatron - End Of Cycle N808 - Witches Witch feat Zoe Wavy Mr. G – Firewater Dan Ivy ft. Biyi – Location Jay Robinson – Stroker Native Alien - Universal Language Analog 87 - PH3 This Must Be The Place Techfunkers - You Can't Stop Us Now (B-Boy Mix) Slok – Roots Underground Resistance - The Outer Darkness feat. Saul Williams LAZA - When My Mind Overflows Loxodrome - Fornax A Wet Basement - Fill Rate Parte 2 D5 - Sides Of Space James Shinra - Hive Mind San Soda – Cocomo Etcher – Phonetics SLPWLKR - Self Control Test A Brooks Mosher - Get Ready ( Fred P. Reshape ) Planet People - Reaktor Theory You & Me - Close To Me (Robert Hood Remix) Tim Wright - Oxygen (Abe Duque RMX) Ian O'Brien - The End of an Era

Track Of The Day: Gary Clail feat. Bim Sherman - Beef (Future Mix) (RCA)

 

A logical choice to follow Mark Stewart and a track that often bombs around my brain. ‘Beef’ takes me back to the heady days of 1990, the tail end of my first year at Sussex University and the Glastonbury festival. Three drug-fuelled days spent with friends from the campus. I have no idea how much I slept, or if I slept at all. I know I only went to the bog once and it was cathartic. I slept in someone else’s tent because mine had been hijacked, and there was a sound system about 50 metres in front of me blasting out ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’ on repeat. Thankfully that changed to ‘In A Silent Way’ just before dawn. By then, however, the damage had already been done and, admitting defeat, I set off with John Hassay to the folk tent. It was in full swing and we ate ice cream and chatted to a Scottish lad there about different types of acid. ‘Beef’ was big on the main field sound system, which added to the apocalyptic nature of the whole occasion.

Track Of Yesterday: Mark Stewart - Hypnotised (Mute)

 

To my eternal regret, I never saw either The Pop Group or Mark Stewart live. And it’s too late now. We do, however, have a rich back catalogue of his uncompromising musical and idealistic vision to call upon at will. And ‘Hypnotized’ was his first solo release after the split of The pop Group, here extended and mixed into an industrial dub nightmare by Adrian Sherwood (who else?). And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s just as much about the ambience as anything else here, with Mark Stewart’s vocals taking a minimal role, but overstatement is the enemy here. Concision is everything. Lovely Burroughs sample too. The instrumentation is provided, more or less, by Tackhead under the guise of Maffia Members.

Track Of The Day: The Martian - The Voice Of Grandmother (Red Planet)

 

Unmistakably Reed Planet, albeit not as banging,=. All of the recognisable elements are present. The string stabs, the instant groove, the spaced out, woozy synth and a constant beat. All combine to make this track one that feels more constant than most. There are some jazzy bits as well. The percussion rises and falls as if it were trying to accommodate soloists. This sounds like techno that could have been played at The Loft. It has that drama and aura of togetherness. Positive stuff.

Track Of The Day: Ornette Coleman - Ramblin' (Atlantic)

 

This is from Coleman’s fourth album, and obviously a lot more conventional than what came later. And what came later is an acquired taste. ‘Ramblin’’ is aptly named. It pootles along nicely, like I do on some of my more recent runs. Loads of lovely soloes to enjoy. And, in spite of its relativity, it has a mind of its own.

Track Of Yesterday: Moxx - Re-B1tch (Yoshi)

 

The A side of a release which also has an amazing B (‘Time Is Running Out’). ‘Re-B1tch’ is one of those tracks which, contrary to popular belief, may sound a little better pitched up. ’Tis of no matter though, as pitched down it could also slide into many a psychedelic disco set. I reckon I’d refer it in full groove flow though, aligned with some very dubby house, designed to keep the beans effervescent and at peak time delirium. A permanent slow burner.

Track Of The Day: A:xus feat. Naomi - Callin' U (Extended Vocal Mix) (Guidance)

 

A piece of timeless vocal house music from A:xux, aka Abacus, aka Austin Bascom, who is truly one of the unsung deep house producers, even if he gets kudos what he gets isn’t enough.And this is fabulous. Atmospheric, soulful, jazzy and powerful. Taken from the film ‘Bagdad Cafe’, but nothing like the original. I’m glad about that because watching that film at the Screen on the Hill in 1987 with Peter Pulford brings back vivid memories ozone of *The* great acid trips. I have no idea where we went after the film, but before it started we went on one of those LSD walks that you do, going past and exploring the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. I mean going into the hospital and walking around it like a couple of weirdos. The film came next and was incredible, the cinema was almost as good as the film, so we had it to fall back on if things got boring, which they didn’t. One of the great acid experiences was had that night. I think it was probably when later we were on the tube and got off at Wood Green to listen to the escalators, which we thought were descending into hell. I have no idea where we ended up, but it was one of those life-defining experiences. I haven’t watched the film again, but coming across this track today has awoken all sorts of memories. All of them good.

Track Of The Day: Addy Weitzman - No Man's Land (The Time & Space Machine Shango Dub) (Slacker 85)

I came across this earlier today and was sufficiently moved to post it. It’s a piece of slightly up tempo chug with the type of cavernous production, courtesy of Richard Norris, that wouldn’t sound out of place bouncing off the walls of a castle. Norris reimagines the track a number of times so the release is actually billed as a collaboration between The Time & Space Machine & Weitzmann. This is what I want to listen to at the end of a hard week. Lovely stuff!

Link & E621 - Antacid (Jedi Knights Remix) (Eevolute/Warp)

 

Listening to this feels like the last thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye. Electro has been going through something of a renaissance in recent years. When this was made though, it was maybe fifteen years into its lifespan. And this, as now, didn’t sound dated at all, even if a lot of its building blocks had already been well-used within the fraternity. Anyway, this blend of handclaps, concave end, multiple uses of the “fresh`’ sample, and a vocoder, amongst many other things, show the way forward then just as they did then. A proper piece of break-dancing madness.

Track Of The Day: The Souls - Tonight (Craig Bratley Dub) (Magic Feet Recordings)

 

It’s the hottest day of the year so far (which wouldn’t take much). So, a day after armageddon didn’t happen here I am basking in West Suffolk in the low twenties and, instead of listening to sunshine music I’ve got that Melina Serser at Houghton 2025 mix on. I mean the while mix is proper ork music. Play loud, in the dark and swing lots of chains around. It’s an amazing mix though, taking chug to a much darker place. And this pops up somewhere near the beginning, about 20 minutes in I think. It’s the somnolent backing vocals that get me the most, as well as the relentless pounding towards the Eye Of Sauron fog horn. Outside the kids are playing in the park and people are having picnics, and I’m listening not this wondering what motivates those who make such weird shit.

Track Of The Day: John Beltran - Deluge (Peacefrog)

 

From the brilliant ‘Ten Days Of Blue’, which surfaced in the mid nineties, ‘Deluge’ really is an onomatopoeic track. And although the album is probably more defined as an ambient album more than anything else, it’s not really. The beats in this tune eventually give way to a dramatic, symphonic clash at the end, so there’s more than a bit of genre-bending going on. Above all this is a great piece of techno, and it’s sad that the label doesn’t hold it’s artists in high regard. This was posted almost ten years ago on the album’s Discogs release page.

”This Is John Beltran. This release is illegal. Peacefrog has ripped me and many others off for years. I've never been paid a cent. Now they must be in need of money or something. Don't give it to them. I released the LP on Band Camp for free yesterday and or for a donation to an animal shelter in Peacefrogs country. They have blocked that release with a copyright infringement letter. It's not about the money anymore. Now it's personal.”

Om Unit - Oracles (Local Action)

 

Title: Oracles

Artist: Om Unit

Label: Local Action

Cat Number: LOC 092

Genre: Breaks

1: Remember

2: Rustt

3: Ripples

4: Healing Tool

5: Survivor

The hook of ‘Remember’ sounds like it came straight out of the court of Henry Vlll. It’s some weird Tudor melody injected into a loose break beat context. There’s also the Enya - like vocals to consider as well. So you can probably appreciate the dynamics within which are being worked. From then on it’s probably correct to say that ‘Rustt’ and ‘Ripples’ are the heavier of the four tracks left. ‘Rustt’ has great definition. Every part feels distinct yet works in complete tandem with each other. It’s a bouncy, yet deep tune where the break beats often give way to space and time. ‘Ripples’ is heavier due to a grinding low end and god use of echo. It’s a tad more urgent, but this is kept in check by what sound like frantic hand claps. ‘Healing Tool’ deploys erratic beats over a more relaxed, therapeutic backdrop, and ‘Survivor’ feels like a clear fusion of more than one sphere of influence. I’m getting strong jazz vibes from it, as well as string led soul. The whole EP is a dynamic piece of work, built on a foundation of break beats, but defined by the myriad of flourishes that play across them.

DMX Krew @ Kiosk Radio 28.03.2026

 

Sun Ra Arkestra - When There Is No Sun (Curated By Ricardo Villalobos) (Omni Sound)

 

Title: When There Is No Sun

Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra

Label: Omni Sound 

Cat Number: 

Genre: All Over The Place

01. Underground Resistance - When Angels Speak featuring Saul Williams 5:24
02. She Spells Doom - Somebody Else’s Idea featuring Sun Ra Arkestra (SHE Spells Doom Remix) 5.17
03. Chez Damier & Ben Vedren - The Three Dimensions of Air featuring Anthony Joseph (H2H Kora Mix) 6.12
04. Calibre - Chopin featuring Sun Ra Arkestra (Calibre Remix ) 8.29
05. Ricardo Villalobos - I have Forgotten featuring Tara Middleton (Ricardo Villalobos Earlier than Late Remix 2) 10.23
06. Chez Damier & Ben Vedren- The Endless Realm featuring Tunde Adebimpe (H2H Mix) 6:20
07. Underground Resistance – The Outer Darkness featuring Saul Williams 5:07
08. A Guy Called Gerald - Message to Black Youth featuring Mahogany L.Browne (Gerald Rework) 3.15
09. She Spells Doom - Portrait of the Living Sky featuring Sun Ra Arkestra (SHE Spells Doom Remix) 5.34
10. Ricardo Villalobos - I Have Forgotten featuring Tara Middleton (Ricardo Villalobos Earlier than Late Remix 1) 11.55
11. Baris K – Somebody Else’s Idea featuring Abiodun Oyewole 6:34
12. Calibre - Chopin featuring Sun Ra Arkestra (Calibre Ambient Remix) 6.22

Not being your well-rounded Sun Ra scholar, I see no relevance in reviewing this release as a comparison to the original material. I first became aware in Sun Ra in the early 1980s. However, in spite of that passage of time, I’ve never really listened to him. And I think that’s the situation for a lot of people. Sun Ra remains an enigma. Someone who we’ve heard of but never dipped our toes into. An interesting element to stimulate conversation when it might be flagging. “Oh, have you ever heard Sun Ra, he’s really out there”. Anyway, whatever the case, this Ricardo Villalobos compilation is a lot more cohesive than anything Sun Ra himself ever produced. And although I guess that also means it’s a lot more conservative as well, there’s a lot of variety within the general structure. Standouts for me are ‘Chez Damier & Ben Vedren- The Endless Realm featuring Tunde Adebimpe (H2H Mix)’, a full-bodied keys led house shuffler; ‘Underground Resistance – The Outer Darkness featuring Saul Williams’ spoken word alongside some sharp minimal syncopation; ‘Baris K – Somebody Else’s Idea featuring Abiodun Oyewole’, a respiratory-inspired sounding remix which melds percussion and disembodied voices into a chug-friendly stomper; and finally the other Chez Damier contribution, which blends a subtle kora with Anthony Joseph’s clear and concise proclaiming ‘The Three Dimensions of Air featuring Anthony Joseph (H2H Kora Mix)’.

Track Of The Day: The Future Sound Of London - Flak (Virgin)

I played all of ‘Lifeforms’ before. It was a lovely morning and this weekend has been the first time this year that we’ve been a blue to have coffee in the garden without putting a coat on. Anyway, I was able to hear some bits better than others over the outside ambience, and the melody that floats over the top of this really stood out. Sort of like an electro flute over primitive, tribal percussion. One of those melodies that takes one back to a pastoral prehistory and always makes me think of the many raves and outdoor parties I went to in the middle of nowhere. The sun slowly coming up and illuminating everything and everyone. Also something that, no matter how silly it sounds, feels quantifiably of this place.

Track Of The Day: Boogie Down Productions - South Bronx (B-Boy Records)

 

Before I got into house, etc, I was really into hip-hop, and when I moved down to London, Elephant & Castle, in June 1987, I had just started seriously buying it. Of course I can’t remember the name of the shop, but it was a small one off Walworth Rd., much closer to the Camberwell end than the Elephant one. There were record shops on every street corner back then, or so it seemed. Anyway, this particular one was mostly US imports I think, and it had a small, but perfectly formed hip-hop section. I’d heard that Scott Le Rock had recently been murdered in New York, but wasn’t that familiar with his music, so I bought ‘Criminal Minded’ on sight and found out all about the beef between the Bronx and Queens. I’ve still got this record within a few metres of me, but I doubt I’d find it in five minutes. I saw BDP live at The Town & Country club a couple of years later and it was one of the best hip-hop Gigs I ever went to. Better than EPMD mumbling and miming their album.

Track Of The Day: Larry Heard feat. Mr White - The Sun Can't Compare (Alleviated Records)

This track needs no introduction, except to say that it was being played by everyone and no one could possibly ruin it, unless they didn’t play it all. A contender for the best vocal acid track, as well as evidence that Larry heard can do no wrong. And the reason I’m posting it is because I just heard in on an Optimo mix. Which is nice.

LAST DRESDEN RECORDING AT CORSICA

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Recorded at Houghton - Vlada (2025)

Houghton Festival · Recorded at Houghton - Vlada (2025)

Recorded at Houghton - Al Wootton ( Pinters Set - 2025)

 

Houghton Festival · Recorded at Houghton - Al Wootton ( Pinters Set - 2025)

Track Of The Day: Sloth & Dormant - Yellow Cake (Thrive)

 

Posted as ‘Yellow Cake’ on Youtube, but as ‘Bush Life’ on a recent Instagram post on the real_tech_house account, I’m not too sure what to put. However ‘Bush Life’ on Pete’s Bandcamp comes up as a different tune. I could look for it downstairs, but would probably be incommunicado for the rest of the day. Anyways, this is a great piece of hypnotic, driving, druggy, groovy music. Everything was pitched up in those days so, in the spirit of some recent posts I’m going to say that I’d pitch it down. Not by much, but just enough to make it sound funkier and more lubricated. Another piece of magic from Mr. Hurst which has aged well.

Kerrie - Waves Of Reverie (Cultivated Electronics)

 

Title: Waves Of Reverie PT 1

Artist: Kerrie

Label: Cultivated Electronics

Cat Number: CE 049

Genre: Electro

A1: Enter The Vortex

A2: Beware Of Monotony

B1: Waves Of Reverie

B2: Funk Fidelity

I get the “waves” element instantly. ‘Enter The Vortex’ is made up of just that. It’s a heavy, slightly fidgety piece of electro that eternally unfurls over the electronic matrix that supports it. ‘Beware Of Monotony’ is sparser but no less imposing. A vocoder intones something that I don’t quite understand, but has me craning towards my speaker in hope. The melody sounds like a flock of seagulls on acid (the birds, not the group). This one is all about the bass. The title track leans in a similar sonic direction to what has gone before, and maybe falls in between the opening two as far as weight is concerned. There’s a feeling of tempered relentlessness, something which is further emphasised on ‘Funk Fidelity’, whose abrasive beats and rawness round off this release in style. It’s no holds barred stuff this, the type of electro that reimagines the genre squeezing into that techno nether region and not escaping.

V/A - Minacore Vol. 1 (Mina)

 

Title: Minacore Vol. 1

Artist: Various

Label: MIna

Cat Number: MINA001

Genre: Beats

1: Phoebe - Swamp Head

2: Violet - Early Shift

3: BLEID - 8AM PM

4: marum - Nothing Gold Can Stay

It’s a mixed bag this; ranging from the acid-tinged stomp of ‘Swamp Head’ to the beatless 1970s-tinged electronica of ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’. In between ‘Early Shift’ gives us drum and bass with some interesting tempo switches and ‘8AM PM’ invokes tribal abandon through layers of percussion. If we’re picking faves, as would be the case on such a release where difference is such a calling card, ‘Swamp Head’ takes the plaudits, with its 303 infused chug. However, each tune is an exercise in shape throwing tenderisation, from the most pummelling (‘8AM PM’), to the lightest of palpitations (‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’). And ‘Early Shift’ being the most dynamic.

Intergalactic Gary at MITHA

 

MITHA · Intergalactic Gary at MITHA

Track Of The Day: Joy Division - Disorder (Factory)

 

The opening track from one of the best albums ever released, and one I remember buying very clearly., I was with my dad and brother on the way down to, or back from a holiday. He had recently left my mum and was showing some sort of paternal duty by taking us on a holiday to Seaford on the south coast. We stopped in London and I went to HMV at the tTottenham Court Rd end of Oxford Street. ‘Unknown Pleasures’ had just been released and was all you could see when entering the shop. Factory definitely had their marketing dept. On full alert with it. Anyway I think it cost £2.99 at the time and I remember thinking that it, along with ‘Electricity’ by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark both had very tactile sleeves. ‘Disorder’ is such an incredible opening track. Curtis’ lyrics are amazing and sonically it takes you to a place that most bands of that time weren’t capable of, or hadn’t conceived. You can feel the way things were going to evolve well before New Order started. Every element is perfect.

Track Of The Day: DJ Ali - In The Day (The Leaf Label)

 

Definitely a b anger this one. DJ Ali came up with some quite original tunes when tribal west coast house was at it’s peak. However, most of those he’ll be remembered for were vocal led by Tim Fuller. ‘In The Day’ is a more functional piece in that respect. However, there is a lot more to it than meets the ear. It drives along relentlessly, powered by level upon level of percussive bombast, all of which is topped off by the most subtle use of the 303 which is, as far as I’m concerned, it’s hallmark.